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TheHeretic -> These images are graphic and disturbing (3/18/2009 9:45:56 PM)
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A rant:
So I was responding to someone on a thread about politics the other day, and I used the analogy of a chicken with it's head cut off. If you want to describe frantic and pointless activity, that's a pretty good analogy. At least, it is a good analogy if the person you are talking to has a clue what you are talking about. Everyone has heard the expression I imagine, but in these modern days, I wonder how many people actually understand what is being described.
On a whim, I thought it would be fun to link the phrase to some video of precisely what I was comparing the President's activities to, just in case the person I was responding to was a life-long city boy who thinks meat comes from styrofoam, and that onions grow on trees. That turned out to be more of a project than I thought, and I just ok'd the post.
Well, I kept up my search for a bit anyway. Pretty slim pickings. I found a blog where someone had posted just the video I wanted, only to discover the video had been pulled, but the thread still running, attacking the OP on just about every grounds imaginable, without ever addressing his question (sorta like some of the threads up in General BDSM [8|]). He was a "sick, disgusting bastard," he needed to be arrested or locked away in a mental institution. Others were using the thread to proclaim their own virtues, and how they would never find amusement in the death of a living creature, that they would never be so cruel and heartless as to laugh at something so tragic.
There was one easy Google hit, to some badly shot video of a "native ritual," with the tourists all gasping and muttering, but for the simple, everyday act of turning livestock into dinner, I had found squat, before walking away in disgust at what a nation of ignorant, knee-jerk, bleeding hearts, I live in.
What is the point of having a classic metaphor, if people aren't allowed to understand it?
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